Updated Branches: refs/heads/1.6.0-SNAPSHOT 9b6b9cf10 -> 29223f796
ACCUMULO-1946 Note in the README about dfs.datanode.synconclose. Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/accumulo/repo Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/accumulo/commit/0fd190b6 Tree: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/accumulo/tree/0fd190b6 Diff: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/accumulo/diff/0fd190b6 Branch: refs/heads/1.6.0-SNAPSHOT Commit: 0fd190b602ab88458e9932b8467a17c8e8201d09 Parents: 27c1d77 Author: Josh Elser <els...@apache.org> Authored: Mon Dec 2 12:43:58 2013 -0500 Committer: Josh Elser <els...@apache.org> Committed: Mon Dec 2 12:43:58 2013 -0500 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- README | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/accumulo/blob/0fd190b6/README ---------------------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/README b/README index 4b29864..ab6f3fc 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -94,6 +94,10 @@ Cloudera CDH 3u4 dfs.support.append true Hortonworks HDP `1.0 dfs.support.append false Hortonworks HDP `1.1 dfs.support.append false +Additionally, it is strongly recommended that you enable 'dfs.datanode.synconclose' +in your hdfs-site.xml configuration file to ensure that, in the face of unexpected +power loss to a datanode, files are wholly synced to disk. + The example accumulo configuration files are placed in directories based on the memory footprint for the accumulo processes. If you are using native libraries for you tablet server in-memory map, then you can use the files in "native-standalone".